This episode highlights how shows like Bel-Air and Saturdays reimagine Black girls by giving them complex storylines that challenge stereotypes and resist adultification.

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This episode highlights examples of how television has portrayed Black girls and women through controlling images which limits their ability to fully express their identities beyond restrictive stereotypes both on-screen and in real life.

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This episode examines the rise of Black family sitcoms in the early 1990s that centered Black girlhood, and how their decline in favor of Black dramedies reflects a loss of nuclear family representation on television.

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This episode examines how Black girls can be simultaneously hypervisible and hyperinvisible in media, highlighting Laura Winslow’s (Family Matters) experience as her character was increasingly overshadowed by male-centered narratives.

This episode explores how Black female actors are often treated as disposable in Hollywood, using the careers and public treatment of Maia Campbell (In the House) and Lark Voorhies (Saved by the Bell) to reveal how fame, visibility, and care are unevenly extended to Black women in the industry.

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